• @[email protected]
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    313 hours ago

    I believe we’d still be warm for those 8 minutes. We have an 8 minute grace period before having to do anything, then enough time to add sweaters faster than earth cools.

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      513 hours ago

      I was forced to calculate the black body temperature and radiation for the Earth, back in college by hand.

      I decided for fun to zero out the sun from the equation to see what would happen.

      My math came out to about -32°C average surface temperature.

      Earth would become an ice planet.

      I think you’d uh, need a bit more than a sweater in those conditions 😅

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      213 hours ago

      it’s because light takes 8 minutes to get from the sun to us. and since gravity also travels at the speed of light our orbit would only change after 8 minutes.